[sdiy] ... Simulating a Moog

[James Patchell]

At 08:50 PM 5/3/2004 -0700, nN AAt     e     e wrote:

>i think it was this [last?] month's sound on sound that even had a thing
>about the advantages of outboard DSP systems? im probably wrong about SOS...
>but on openended special purpose hardware:
>re: chameleon
>re: ez-kit lite [shifty death synth, the guys at DSPerado, etc]
>re: nord modular + nord modular g2 [too versitile to be considered just a
>virtual synth]
>re: new stand alone VST host systems
>etc.
>
>computer based is convenient, but at some point you can get annoyed with
>crashes, glitches, etc, that i find arent as big a problem with hardware...
>now if they only had a stand alone platform for reaktor... imagine the
>resources that would take... the 21st century equivalent of Synclavier and
>Fairlight systems :P

         There is a hardware equivalent....the Magic of the FPGA.  For 
about $20US you can get a massive amount of digital hardware that would 
make the Fairlight and Synclavier  pale in comparison.  On my desk right 
next to me I have one chip that is equivalent to all of the parts that in 
the next room (my work shop)....and Cynthia can vouch for the fact that I 
have a very large inventory of parts.  In some ways, we live in the 
"Diamond Age" (a book by Neal Stephenson) now....  I suspect I could 
duplicate my entire TX816 rack inside of the single XC3S400 that is on this 
eval board I have.....the only thing stopping me at the moment is something 
that is in very short supply right now....free time :-(

>- nate

         -Jim
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